Necessary and sufficient condition for the existence of positive solutions of certain cooperative system

Nonlinear Analysis, Theory, Methods and Applications

Volumn 26, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 1079-1095

  Lou, Yuan ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^b MATHEMATICAL SCIENCES RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Blow up method; Cooperative system; Existence and nonexistence; Fixed point index; Positive solution

Indexed keywords

EID: 0042039416     PISSN: 0362546X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0362-546X(94)00265-J     Document Type: Article

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